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    I only stream music on my desktop computer. It's either streaming (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer) or my own iTunes library. I have an iPod Touch and I can stream at home where I have wifi. But otherwise I use iPod to listen to my own music.

     

    I wouldn't stream from my cell phone even if I could. I wouldn't want to waste my phone battery on music.

    I don't know if 1D will be done with promo by then, I think their break is starting within the next few weeks. I think Little Mix are more likely. Maybe with Derulo.

     

     

    They start their 2 year break in March 2016.

     

    They will also take a break during the holidays.

    Skrillex and Diplo - Where Are U Now

    Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean

    Justin Bieber - Sorry

    Adele - Hello

    Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth - See You Again

    5SOS - She's Kinda Hot

    5SOS - Hey Everybody!

    Rihanna - 45Seconds

    Rihanna - BBHMM

    Sam Smith - Writing On The Wall

     

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    I don't think it's that much. One of the All About That Bass writers claims he's only made $5679 from people streaming it. That works out as £3671.93. AATB has been streamed 178 million streams on Spotify, which works out as 0.000021p per stream.

    Yeah, but you have to consider that Spotify doesn't pay directly to the artist. They pay to rights holders and artists get a portion of that money from rights holders. Plus, that song had more than one songwriter, so everything splits again.

     

    In general websites assume Spotify pays out about $0.007 per stream. That's the number they use when they calculate how much Spotify paid out. For 178 million streams, it would be $1.246 million.

    I'm fairly sure this isn't true - countries have channel switched before and I'm fairly certain there aren't any countries with two public channel umbrellas (as in BBC vs ITV as opposed to BBC1 vs BBC2)

     

     

    There is BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation and then there is United Kingdom Independent Broadcasting (ITV, Channel 4). UKIB's primary function is to represent independent British television interests.

     

    Some countries like Belgium have two public broadcasters (Flemish, Belgian French) and each gets to pick an entry every other year. In Britain, BBC is the primary EBU member.

     

     

    In any case, I don't think BBC is the problem here. It's the mentality.

    Why would we withdraw? It's guaranteed high ratings for the BBC.

     

    If anything, I think we should let ITV take over the rights. Hopefully then we can get better acts in. Who knows?

     

     

    Eurovision is a song competition between European public broadcasters. BBC is British public broadcaster. ITV is a commercial TV channel. So suggesting ITV to take over from BBC is just not possible.

     

    The UK has a lot of great music and could easy send great entries every year. Europe knows that.

     

    Meanwhile, Eurovision isn't taken seriously in the UK and no first or second class act would consider going to Eurovision. So BBC struggles every year trying to come up with a decent act and a decent entry. They tried with has-beens and never-was' and complete newbies who just weren't ready for this event.

     

    The UK's problem is the mentality.

    I'm from Slovenia and Slovene is my mother tongue. English is the only foreign language I'm really good at, even though I also took German in high school. I sort of understand Serbo-Croatian.

     

    I prefer Eurovision songs in English. If I don't understand the lyrics, I just tune out, ignore the song completely and wait for the next performance. It's as simple as that. And I believe it's generally the same for most people. It's really hard to a song not in English to overcome the language barrier. We can talk about celebrating different cultures by singing in our own languages all we want, but the reality is that it's a competition and you have to get people to connect with the song.

    If the sales period remains the same, record companies may be tempted to defy the agreement and release on a Monday to get a full first week's sales in the same chart week. That's why I am pretty sure the OCC will change the chart week.

     

     

    I agree, the sales tracking week has to change with the global release day. Labels are not going to release albums just two days before the sales cut off deadline. Global release day is not a law for the record labels, they can still release albums any day of the week.

    Jana Šušteršič just won Slovenia's Got Talent 4 at the end of 2014. If you remember, Maja Keuc was Slovenia's Got Talent 1 runner-up.

     

    Rudi Bučar is in recent years a big favorite of the juries, so don't be surprised if he is in the TOP 2.

     

     

    All 8 acts will perform and then the jury will pick 2 that the audience will be voting on.

    Here are my TOP 12 (#1 is my favorite, #12 least favorite)

     

    1. Ella Henderson - Ghost

    2. Katy B - Crying For No Reason

    3. Katy Perry feat. Juicy J - Dark Horse

    4. Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea – Problem

    5. Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX - Fancy

    6. Rita Ora - I Will Never Let You Down

    7. Sia – Chandelier

    8. Kiesza - Hideaway

    9. Beyoncé feat. Jay Z - Drunk In Love

    10. Ariana Grande feat. Zedd - Break Free

    11. Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass

    12. Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This